Nineteenth-century medical attitudes toward alcoholic addiction
Subtitle: six studies, 1814-1867
By: edited by Gerald N. Grob.
Contributors: Grob, Gerald N., 1931-
Series: Addiction in America
Publisher: Arno Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Alcoholism.
Notes: Reprint of the 6 works: the 1814 ed. of An inquiry into the effects of ardent spirits upon the human body and mind ..., by B. Rush, printed by E. Merriam, Brookfield, Mass.; the 1828 ed. of A discourse on intemperance, by D. Drake, published by Looker & Reynolds, Cincinnati; the 1829 ed. of A dissertation on intemperance ..., by W. Sweetser, published by Hilliard, Gray, Boston; the 1830 ed. of An essay on alcoholic & narcotic substances, as articles of common use, by E. Hitchcock, published by J. S. & C. Adams, Amherst, Mass.; the 1838 ed. of Essays on asylums for inebriates, by S. B. Woodward, published in Worcester, Mass.; and the 1867 ed. of Methomania, by A. Day, published by J. Campbell, Boston.